Big Table Podcast
1) Episode 56: Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion
In Evelyn McDonnell’s The World According to Joan Didion, readers will find an intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of the revered and influential writer Joan Didion. As a groundbreak...Show More
2) Episode 55: Adaptation with Cord Jefferson & Percival Everett
We have a special edition of The Big Table Podcast on today’s episode. Presenting Adaptation, the inaugural event of a new literary salon series and collaboration between USC’s Dornsife Experimental...Show More
3) Episode 54: Prudence Peiffer
Prudence Peiffer’s first book, The Slip, is the never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a...Show More
4) Episode 53: Two Poets in Conversation
As we prime our book club model for post-COVID growth, we are programming a couple of longer late-summer episodes about our own books via Hat & Beard Press. To support Big Table or Hat & Beard, join o...Show More
5) Episode 52: A Chapter about Slime
File Under: Slime by Christopher Michlig — a cultural history of Slime — was recently published by Hat & Beard Editions. What is slime? We are well acquainted with its qualities in conjunction with c...Show More
6) Episode 51: Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss & Why They Matter
For Big Table episode 51, editors Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker discuss their latest book, Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter. Is there a “Rosebud” object in your past...Show More
Episode 51: Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss & Why They Matter
28:35 | Jun 22nd, 2023
7) Episode 50: dublab
dublab: Future Roots Radio is the long-awaited book telling the story of the pioneering online radio station through interviews, photos, art, and more. The dublab universe springs to life from these ...Show More
8) Episode 49: Tim Carpenter
To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die: An Essay with Digressions by Tim Carpenter is a book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality. It’s also a book about p...Show More
9) Episode 48: Steven Heller
After 100 books on design, Steven Heller has given us a coming-of-age memoir. The award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times has included 100 color photograph...Show More
10) Episode 47: Bruce Adams
It is fitting that Bruce Adams’s new book, the sardonically-titled You’re with Stupid: kranky, Chicago and the Reinvention of Indie Music, begins at Jim’s Grill off Irving Park Road in the Ravenswood ...Show More